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Popp Talk, October 17, 2026

Popp Talk, October 17, 2026

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Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp Celebrity Impressions, Hollywood Stories, and a Vision for Humanity's Next Era with Jim Meskimen and Cynthia Rivard Mary Jane Popp talks with character actor and impressionist Jim Meskimen about his decades of celebrity voices and his mother, Happy Days star Marion Ross, then welcomes spiritual teacher Cynthia Rivard to discuss her book Hope for a New Era and raising personal frequency to help humanity's next chapter. A Lively Tease For Two Very Different Guests Mary Jane Popp opens Popp Talk promising a dynamite show, then teases her first guest, a man of countless voices who keeps adding new ones, before moving into a lineup of audio impressions: Robin Williams's manic energy and gratitude, Ron Paul sounding utterly sincere, Mitt Romney's eager-to-please tone, and a Newt Gingrich voice edging toward The Godfather. Popp interrupts, laughing that she never knows who she is speaking with, and introduces Jim Meskimen properly, noting his more than thirty years as a professional actor in films including Apollo 13, The Grinch, and Frost/Nixon, and television shows such as Friends, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Fresh Prince, and Castle. She hints that Meskimen's mother, Happy Days star Marion Ross, may have something to do with his career before welcoming him properly to the show and promising listeners a second half built around a new chapter of human evolution. Growing Up In Marion Ross's House Of Accents Meskimen tells Popp his mother, Marion Ross, is doing well at home enjoying a rare sunny stretch after a rough year of fires, rain, and fog, and that she still mentions him proudly to friends. He credits her less with any direct showbiz advice and more with simply watching how a working actor builds a career and survives the long stretches between jobs, lessons he says kept him from quitting over his own thirty-plus years in the business. Meskimen recalls his mother playing a Polish grandmother on Brooklyn Bridge and an Irish maid in an early live television broadcast of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and remembers a childhood home where doing an English or German accent at the dinner table was always welcome. He credits her sharp ear for dialects with passing down, as he jokes, "on a molecular level," the same gift for voices that now defines his own career as an impressionist and actor. Narrating Writers Of The Future With His Family Popp and Meskimen turn to the Writers of the Future contest, founded by L. Ron Hubbard forty-one years ago, where Meskimen served as a presenter this year, working in a Patrick Stewart impression and a run of dad jokes to fit the evening's science-fiction theme. He explains that he, his wife, and his daughter once again narrated the anthology of prizewinning stories released at the gala, their third time doing so together, tackling accents and voices for characters that sometimes are not even human. Meskimen calls it one of the only writing contests that is completely free to enter and can lead to publication and a cash grand prize, noting its international reach; Popp recalls meeting entrants from Australia, the UK, Hungary, and China. Meskimen remembers attending an early ceremony at the United Nations alongside science-fiction legends like Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl, and both point listeners to writersofthefuture.com for details. Jeff Goldblum, The Blue Genie, And Jimpressions Asked about his toughest voice, Meskimen names Jeff Goldblum, a figure known more for his look and persona than for a distinctive voice, calling the challenge fun. He says Robin Williams remains the most enjoyable voice he performs, recalling that Williams himself approved his casting as the blue genie for Disney parades and games, work Meskimen still performs after roughly fifteen years and calls a genuine workout. He touches on his training as a realist oil painter in Northern California and Spain, his early improv commercials for grocery chains, his 1990s appearances on the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? before Drew Carey became famous, and performing impressions for six thousand people at Radio City Music Hall on America's Got Talent in 2013. He tells Popp he is polishing a screenplay, a comedy thriller about an impressionist, set to begin filming this fall, and directs listeners to jimmeskimen.com for a free link to his one-man show, Jimpressions. Cynthia Rivard And The Case For A Golden Era After a musical interlude, Popp introduces spiritual teacher, business strategist, and environmental advocate Cynthia Rivard, author of Hope for a New Era: Turning the Tide, Love and Leadership through Turbulent Times. Rivard argues humanity is in a necessary decluttering phase, comparing today's chaos to the mess that surfaces when someone finally reorganizes a cluttered closet, insisting the turbulence is entirely human-made and that real change starts with aligned action inside each person's own sphere of influence rather than waiting on governments or ...
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